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...Conditions inside C.-and-R. centers are so appalling, even by the grim standards of China's penal institutions, that they won't stay secret forever. Tong Yi, a New York City-based lawyer and human-rights activist who did time in both a re-education labor camp in her native Wuhan and in Beijing's main C.-and-R. center before being granted political asylum in the U.S., describes hellish scenes of healthy children and adults and the mentally ill locked up together. "Life in the center was chaotic and filthy," she recalls. "There was no drinking water, just...
...these acts are representative of an underground scene that is creating a new market while stomping on the tradition of bland love songs, which dominates the country's radio playlists and karaoke machines. "Bands have more references now from outside," explains Arian Arifin, lead singer of Seringai, which means "grim" in Indonesian. "Bands are beginning to understand the music industry...
Outside the clinic, Farmer’s chosen locale looks grim. Horrifying pandemics decimate a population scarred by the poverty and terror that an ongoing U.S. embargo, years of a violent junta and marauding paramilitary forces have bred...
...Then, after these grim fairy tales, we would go to a formal beach party thrown by the films' producers and discuss the plight of the world's unfortunates over caviar and bottles of Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild. That's radical chic at cinema's most glamorous clambake...
...nearness of World War II also meant that members of the Class of 1953 knew many veterans—and many stories about the war—and so did not hold many illusions about the grim reality of combat...